Prospective Study of Pathogen Burden and Risk of Myocardial Infarction or Death
- 2 January 2001
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 103 (1) , 45-51
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.103.1.45
Abstract
Background—We previously demonstrated that the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD) increased in relation to the number of pathogens (the “pathogen burden”) in a cross-sectional study. In the pres...Keywords
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